Tag: Mike Lamb
Lowe's goes with UCC for professional monitoring
January 6, 2016Spencer Ives
MOORESVILLE, N.C.—Home improvement company Lowe's chose United Central Control as the professional monitoring partner for Iris, its DIY home automation system, Lowe's announced Jan. 4.“We've been working for a few years with Lowe's on this endeavor,” Mark Matlock, UCC's senior vice president told Security Systems News. “It's involved a lot of really comprehensive due diligence and working together to make sure we had the offering right, that Lowe's fit into the space properly...
UCC, ADT talk on training Millennials
July 8, 2015Spencer Ives
BALTIMORE—Underlining the important work that central station operators do is key when training Millennials who are now entering the workforce and the security industry, according to panelists at ESX.
"[New central station operators] need to understand the value of their work as well as the responsibility they are given," Mike Lamb, United Central Control's VP and project director, said. This shouldn't be hard, he said, when being a central station operator means protecting lives,...
Hear it from this Millennial
July 8, 2015Spencer Ives
More and more I'm hearing about the “Millennials;” those born between 1980 and 2000. I fit squarely in that range.
Millennials seem to be the target audience for home automation, some have noted them as the more “technological-savvy” generation. Now, the Millennials are entering the job market. At this year's ESX I heard UCC's Mike Lamb, and ADT's Stephen Smith, share their observations on training this younger generation.
During Lamb and Smith's...
2GIG's co-founder has new gig and hot new first product
June 4, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
GRAPEVINE, Texas—Sales of a new device that can affordably turn existing home smoke detectors into monitored smart smoke detectors have surpassed 200,000 units in just a few months and more orders are pouring in, according to the manufacturer, Encore Controls, a startup co-founded by Lance Dean. “It has taken off a lot,” Dean, co-founder of 2GIG and now new home security/home automation player Encore, told Security Systems News about The Firefighter. That new smoke detector takeover...